Delta Quote by Muddy Waters

We don't sound like a Mississippi Delta band, but we play what we mean, and that's the spirit of the blues.

— John Popper

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was…

— Robbie Robertson

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are…

— David Edwards

I think you can hear the Delta blues thing in something like the intro to 'Heaven in This Hell,' which has that down-home acoustic…

— Orianthi

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

— Lil Nas X

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want…

— Wayne Coyne

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical…

— Martin Gore

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics…

— Elvis Presley

On first listen, it's nice to just soak up the sound without thinking about what it means. It's like a relationship. Records I've had…

— Sharon Van Etten

I think the sound that I have had on all the records that I've been a part of have been important and special.

— Vinnie Paul

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a…

— Nick Mason